[rrd-developers] total consolidation function?

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Peter,

Today Peter Stamfest wrote:

> Hello!
>
> The rrdtool(1) manpage has the following to say about consolidation
> functions:
>
>     When setting up an Round Robin Database (RRD), you can define at
>     which interval this consolidation should occur, and what
>     consolidation function (CF) (average, minimum, maximum, total, last)
>     should be used to build the consolidated values (see rrdcreate).
>
> Especially note the "total" CF.

total does not exist ... that is a remainder of a patch I had
accepted hastily ...

a total consolidation function does not make sense in my eyes at
the RRA level ... if you want the total for a time range, you
multiply the average with the range ...

just fixed the docs :-)

cheers
tobi

> However, rrdcreate(1) only ever mentions AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, LAST and has
> nothing to say about a "total" CF.
>
> I also can't find any trace of a total CF when looking at the source
> (although I did not look very hard).
>
> ?
>
> peter
>
>

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